Training
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FEMA 154: Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards & ATC-20: Post-earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings
Where: Lacey
Address: To be determined
When: February 16, 2012 (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Cost: FREE
FEMA 154, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards, provides training on how to identify potentially hazardous buildings before earthquakes occur. The course covers methods and processes that enable personnel to rapidly identify, inventory, and rank local buildings according to their expected safety and usability during and after earthquakes. Local officials can use these data to plan and prioritize further engineering and vulnerability analysis, emergency-response needs, and mitigation projects.
ATC-20, Postearthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings, provides training on rapid and detailed evaluation procedures for evaluating earthquake-damaged buildings and posting them as INSPECTED (apparently safe, green placard), LIMITED ENTRY (yellow placard), or UNSAFE (red placard). It provides examples which allow attendees to evaluate building damage conditions, assess the overall risk from the damage, and recommend which of the three placards should be posted on the building.
Who Should Take this Course:
- Building officials, engineers, architects, building owners, emergency managers, and other interested citizens and volunteers.
To apply, please visit this link and complete the form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X626TQG